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Antibiotics could owe their origin to detoxication of a metabolite that is detrimental to the culture producing the antibiotic.
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DHAR, M., KHAN, A. Formation of Antibiotics. Nature 233, 182–184 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233182a0
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